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# Re: Recommended reading

- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:53:35 PDT
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- CC: jrost10+@pitt.edu, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
- In-reply-to: <Pine.3.89.9610081722.A26281-0100000@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Michael Kraus on Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:23:59 +0000)

    >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kraus <belfry@zeta.org.au> writes:

        Michael> On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Robert J. Brown wrote:
        >> >>>>> "James" == James R O'Kane <jrost10+@pitt.edu> writes:
        >>
        James> Has anyone, besides me, ever actually been admited to a
        James> mental hospital for an extended stay?  -james
        >>  Yes, a LOOOOONG time ago (almost 20 years), but I don't *DO*
        >> MUDs!  Never did.  I am interested in setting up a MOO as a
        >> conferencing environment, but not as an RPG or anything like
        >> that.

        Michael> Err...

        Michael>   A MOO *is* a mud...!  just because it isn't necessarily
        Michael> used for the express purpose of gaming does not change
        Michael> that fact.

    It was the 'D' in 'MUD' -- the Dungeons part -- that I was disavowing.
    Yes, I know that the software is the same, and only the scripting is
    different.  I was talking about purpose, not coding.

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